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THE HIGHER ANIMALS

There are some people who do not believe that before Adam and Evo there was no life upon the face of the earth. But unless they are prepared to argue that Adam and Evo came out of the Garden of Eden some 35,000,000 years ago, they might as well give up, their claim. According to Professor C. Lowla Gazin, scientist of the

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of the further South. The opon- sum of Brazil and Mexico was a highly civiliaed animal, living in community dwellings which might be compared favourably with most. big city tenements of man's con- struction, and at peace with his neighbours, when man was learn- ing to climb trees. Incidentally, Professor Gazin saya, the majority of the world's animals, as they evolve, become more peace-loving and friendly, less ferocious and predatory, unless they are stary- ing. Man in the one animal whose evolution seems to have brought him no farther from the struggle of the primitives. He, unlike the beasts of the forest, kills without. causo, and whether he is hungry or not.

SERBIAN SHEPHERD

Dr. Michael I. Pupin, one-time Serbian Shepherd boy, who went to America in the steerage in 1874. made "service to humanity" his goal throughout a long career as a physicist and engineer of Inter national repute. Known particu-

Our King

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Queen

on their Silver Jubilee

The King Dares to Ride in a "Horseless Carriage,"

King George was nothing if King, is Lord Llongattock with characteristic of King George

mission of power and for theo- retical and practical research which facilitated long-distance commun-not an adventurer bold. He Sir Charles Guest. cation by telephone and wireless,

the height of recognition cane loved the sea and all the thrills when his name was placed with

1.

Was

that always he is enger, when- Remember that this picture ever it is humanly possible, to taken way back when accede, to the countless requests

Those who may have enter-larly well for his work in the trans tained the hope that the Econo mic Commission appointed by the Government to study the Colony's trade depression would have courageously tackled the currency problem will have been Guglielmo Marconi's as recipient and action that go with sailing. I disappointed by its references to is experiences were colourful. of the John Fritz Gold Medal, this subject. It is, indeed, not Landing in New York as a boy of

But here is the new King in a gasoline vehicles were a rarity made upon him by his subjects. and looked upon by most people Few Kings have worked harder too much to say that the issue 16 with only live

cents in his different kind of adventure. He has, for all practical purposes, pocket and poorly clothed, he was

as fit only for crazy men.

than this man who, up until he been side-stepped. Whilst the given a hearing by immigration is seen in to-day's picture in the

But King George, by virtue of was eighteen years of age, never · report frankly concedes that officials before being sent back as

Did he an "undesirable,"

have trade is seriously hampered by

front seal of an carly motor car, daring" to drive in one, prob. dreamed that he would one day America? "Of fluctuations in the local cur- any friends in

owa "horseless carriage," with Hon, ably did more to popularizujbe monarch of the world's great- rency, and that silver, having course," was the answer, "I know Benjamin Franklin and Abraham become 11 veritable gambling Lincoln." He passed on into the C. C. Rolls, of Rolls Royce fume, motor cars in Great Britain than est Empire.. counter, lacks that measure of streets of New York where his stability necessary for sound first meal was prune pie bought In

other individual. trade, the unanimous conclusion with his last nickel and his first is reached that the interests of problem the handling of boot- trade are best served, for the blacks who made fun of his red fez. time being. by retaining the in one of his few public speeches Colony's currency on a silver during recent years Dr. Pupin basis. The Commissioners sure- mado a thought-provoking defence physical sciences but theology, BD- cial science and psychology should be blamed for any taint of materi- ulism in our present power age." he said. "If there is such a taint. don't charge it against the sciences which have discovered the various forms of power and developed them for mankind. Blame it on spiritual unpreparedness of man- kind to enjoy these gifts that have been brought.”

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By the Stimson doctrine of non- recognition and by jingoistic journalists in Japan and America, the United States has been made to appear as the principal if not the sole opponent of Japanese ex- pansionism. That is an unreal situation. There were seven other signaturies to the Nine Power

pact. The League of Nations took

on single-

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rise and fall have in the past in- exorably followed the rise and fall of other commodities and has therefore greatly facilitated the world's trade with silver- using countries. That may have been largely true of other times, but it is certainly not true to-day. It is, in fact, this very disparity between silver prices und the prices of other com- modities which has given China cause to complain of the effects of America's silver policy. It also serves to explain why China more action than the United States has a grievance to-day, whereas in condemnation of the, seizure of she had none when, some years Manchuria. And America's sharo back, silver prices were even of foreign investments in China is [higher than they are to-day, be- [only, about one-fifteenth of the ing then accompanied by higher total. Yet the United States is prices in respect of commodities vitally interested in the Pacific. in general. A further point to low is the to maintain her in- be borne in mind is that the handed negotiations with Japan?

terests? By reliance disparity has become even more Or on a threat of force? It is u pronounced now than it was at commonplace of naval calculations the time, two months ago, when that Japan is amply protected In the Commission concluded its in- her own waters. And Americans vestigations. Harmful as silver have no desire to go to war over fluctuations are to trade, the mmercial interests in the Fur Commissioners express the view East. What remains? The very that any artificial measures aimeration which has looked like ing at "pegging" it, or severing many Americans when considered

n dangerous European game its relationship with other world on the Atlantic side. And the key commodities, would be even more to that co-operation, indeed, the disastrous. The fact is, how only Indispensable factor, is re- ever, as we have already shown, cognition--not necessarily in writ that it bears no constant reten form of that community of It is regrettabic that whilst the and America. lationship to such commodities.rendy existin terial interests existing between Britnin Commissioners lay so much stress 'on the silver problem, with a commodity, the fluctua- they fail to submit any grounds tions of which, on the Com- for their conclusion that Hong-miasiouers' own showing, are in- kong's currency, must remain on jurious to trade. To say the ita present basis. Stabilisation least, the conclusion is dis- possibilities are not anywhere appointing, even surprising, see- An Interesting suggestion analysed. All that we are led to ing that the main task of the contained in the fellowing latter hope is that eventually world Commission was to indicate ap, to the London Times: monetary reform will be tackled, propriate measures for the im-

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The foundation begins to crack.

ponsibility. The control of the be three possible solutions. air over the sca was originally (1) A Ministry of Defence with powers, rightly taken from the Navy be consolidated spending causo they did not appreciate its with all the Inharmonies that this Importance. Has the time come would create until the minds of whon Imporial interest demands those concernod had become ac in some alteration of present situas climatized. (2) What now will to

tion?

many appear to be a sacrilegous If the Navy are to put their iden, that the Admiralty must whole heart into finding out the gradually subordinate itself to the and that, when that time comes, provement of the trade of the in Sea Warfare on March 28 your some change must be made. I Power over the Sea" must be re- Sir,In the article on "Defence full power of the air over the sea Air Ministry. (8) That "Air the allver problem will be dis- Colony. For currency uncer Correspondent raises a vital issue. suggest this power is very much transferred to the Admiralty- posed of with wisdom and fore tainties exercise an obviously de- The provision for the defence of greater than Is acknowledged at

Yours truly, sight. In the meantime, ap terrent effect on trade expan, trade routes, an Imperial interest, present anywhere, perhaps dan- P. F. M. Fellowes (Air Com parently, we must remain linked 'sion.

is now a divided departmental ros kerously greater. There appear to modoro, retd.)

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